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Egypt suffer stunning home loss in Cup of Nations
Jun 16th, 2012
Record seven-time Africa Cup of Nations title holders Egypt suffered a stunning 3-2 home loss to 10-man Central African Republic Friday in a first round qualifier staged behind closed doors. (Source: AFP) -
CAIRO (AP) - Egypt's top Muslim cleric says peaceful protests against the president are permitted, dismissing declarations by Islamist hard-liners that those behind protests planned for June 30 are heretics. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - A refugee from Syria recently opened a bakery here, drawing long lines of customers eager to taste meat and cheese pastries with the special flavors of Damascus - a rare bright spot in the long shadow that the Syrian civil war is casting over the Gaza Strip. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
HELENA, Mont. (AP) - A well-traveled cat named "Mata Hairi" will soon be reunited with her owner after spending nearly 10 months traveling thousands of miles with a hitchhiker who rescued her from the rain. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock futures rose on Monday after major equity indexes on Friday closed their third negative week in four, with traders focused on this week's Fed policy meeting. * While consensus is building among policy-makers that the time is nearing for the Federal Reserve to scale down its quantitative easing, or $85 billion-a-month... [Full Article]
LONDON (AP) - A newspaper report that British eavesdropping agency GCHQ repeatedly hacked into foreign diplomats' phones and emails has prompted an angry response from traditional rival Russia and provoked demands for an investigation from Turkey and South Africa. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]